SHOWGA is an event series focused on empowerment through the senses, incorporating yoga, live music, lights, aromatherapy, and visualization. Participants learn to work with each sense as a tool for wellness, stress reduction, increased performance, and creative flow. Each SHOWGA experience is focused around a theme, which is explored via the 5 senses. SHOWGA always features a live music performance from a range of genres, musicians and bands. Performers weave the given theme into their sets.

We are thrilled to announce Papa Bear and the Easy Love as our musical guest for this Showga. Constantly striving to explore the boundaries and edges of human emotion, Papa Bear captures a deep perspective into the human experience. Lyrical content covers the gamut of mystery, beauty, and the comedy and tragedy of life. The musical lineage stems from the folk heritage, but ranges broadly.. from Americana and bluegrass, to blues, jazz, and good old rock’n’roll. PB and the Easy Love’s shows typically end in a massive singalong, blurring the boundaries between performer and audience, and inviting all to express themselves.

After the SHOWGA experience, enjoy fresh Anchor brews on tap and delicious grub from the food truck! Anchor Public Taps is Anchor Brewing's new pilot brewery and bar located across the street from Anchor's iconic Potrero Hill brewery and taproom.

Ancho Public Taps is a friendly gathering place for trying both new, experimental brews, and the classic Anchor beers you know and love. It has some of the best local food trucks scheduled daily, as well as calendar of special events to celebrate those good times and good beer!

The theme for this month's Oakland Showga is "Balancing Doing and Being". We will explore the importance of rest, assimilation, and integration in the midst of our busy, action-packed lives. We will also focus on action and movement as tools for growth in times of stagnance.

We are pleased to announce LakeCube as the musical guest for this Showga event! LakeCube is the musical alias of bassist/producer Luke Bace. Born, raised, and schooled on the east coast, Luke now resides in Berkeley, California where he swims in the infinite potential of music making on a daily basis. Luke has played in many bands you haven’t heard of over the years, most notably Big Tree, with which he spent seven years playing bass. In the aftermath of that group’s disbandment Luke decided to acquire the “means of production”… in other words, he spent all his money and time learning how to record and produce music, something he hadn’t done since he took a high school electronic music course. Three years later LakeCube has hit his stride and is set for a steady stream of releases throughout 2018, culminating in a full length. Besides working on his own music, Luke produces and plays with Firemaid and plays bass and effects in recording sessions and with a number of Bay Area groups.

This will be a "spring cleaning" themed Showga event. We will move through a cleansing flow practice and do some energetic cleansing work, as well! We'll clear built-up stress and fear, leaving us more open, present, connected, and ready to embrace new opportunities.

We are pleased to announce Dania Luck as the music guest for the Showga! Dania Luck is an Oakland, California-based sound designer, recording artist, performer, and visual artist utilizing various media including analog synthesizers, cheap electronics, and computer code to create sonic and visual environments rooted in minimalism and punk philosophy. She is a recent graduate from Mills College MFA of Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, for which her thesis explored music therapy and its role in the treatment of mental trauma. Luck's various projects include STACIAN, CLONER, Person L, & Māren.

SHOWGA is an event series focused on empowerment through the senses, incorporating yoga, live music, lights, aromatherapy, and visualization. Participants learn to work with each sense as a tool for wellness, stress reduction, increased performance, and creative flow. Each SHOWGA experience is focused around a theme, which is explored via the 5 senses. SHOWGA always features a live music performance from a range of genres, musicians and bands. Performers weave the given theme into their sets.

Miles Lassi is a percussionist/ producer hailing from the San Francisco Bay area. He has performed in over 150 cities throughout North America, Europe and Asia with many different ensembles ranging from the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall to the National tour of Dirty Dancing, the hit broadway show. As a session musician, Miles has recorded for producers Sean C and LV (P Diddy's Hitmen) for artists including Talib Kweli, Miguel, Fabulous, Bun B and Jadakiss. He has also worked with Grammy award winning producers Om'Mas Keith, Corte Ellis, Jack Vad and Tony award winner Peter Schneider. In addition to freelancing throughout the Bay Area, Miles works as a dance accompanist for Anna Halprin, Sonoma State University, Mills College, and is a recording engineer at Skyline Studios in Oakland.

After the SHOWGA experience, enjoy fresh Anchor brews on tap and delicious grub from the food truck! Anchor Public Taps is Anchor Brewing's new pilot brewery and bar located across the street from Anchor's iconic Potrero Hill brewery and taproom.

Ancho Public Taps is a friendly gathering place for trying both new, experimental brews, and the classic Anchor beers you know and love. It has some of the best local food trucks scheduled daily, as well as calendar of special events to celebrate those good times and good beer!

SHOWGA is an event series focused on empowerment through the senses, incorporating yoga, live music, lights, aromatherapy, and visualization. Participants learn to work with each sense as a tool for wellness, stress reduction, increased performance, and creative flow. Each SHOWGA experience is focused around a theme, which is explored via the 5 senses. SHOWGA always features a live music performance from a range of genres, musicians and bands. Performers weave the given theme into their sets.

The theme for February's Oakland Showga is "Exploring Boundaries and Edges". We will learn some techniques for energetic protection and tidiness, and we will exolore the power of working right on the edge of discomfort. We must challenge ourselves in order for growth to take place, but it's also important to know our limits and not push ourselves to the point of forcing.

We are thrilled to announce musial guest Opaque Couché for this event. Opaque Couché is the current electronic solo project of Lumerians co-founder, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Jason Miller. Inspired by the rhythms of wind, rain, the commonalities between disparate ceremonial rituals, pulses of existential consternation, and gas station food.

SHOWGA is an event series focused on empowerment through the senses, incorporating yoga, live music, lights, aromatherapy, and visualization. Participants learn to work with each sense as a tool for wellness, stress reduction, increased performance, and creative flow. Each SHOWGA experience is focused around a theme, which is explored via the 5 senses. SHOWGA always features a live music performance from a range of genres, musicians and bands. Performers weave the given theme into their sets.

The theme for these January Anchor SHOWGA events is "Everything is Medicine". We will learn to draw upon the support that is always around and within us. Medicine is anything that will help us, make us better, heal us, or bring balance back into our lives. There is medicine and great beauty in all aspects of our environment. We can use anything or any situation as an ally, or as support on the path toward growth and well being.

After the SHOWGA experience, enjoy fresh Anchor brews on tap and delicious grub from the food truck! Anchor Public Taps is Anchor Brewing's new pilot brewery and bar located across the street from Anchor's iconic Potrero Hill brewery and taproom.

Ancho Public Taps is a friendly gathering place for trying both new, experimental brews, and the classic Anchor beers you know and love. It has some of the best local food trucks scheduled daily, as well as calendar of special events to celebrate those good times and good beer!

SHOWGA is an event series focused on empowerment through the senses, incorporating yoga, live music, lights, aromatherapy, and visualization. Participants learn to work with each sense as a tool for wellness, stress reduction, increased performance, and creative flow. Each SHOWGA experience is focused around a theme, which is explored via the 5 senses. SHOWGA always features a live music performance from a range of genres, musicians and bands. Performers weave the given theme into their sets.

The theme for these January Anchor SHOWGA events is "Everything is Medicine". We will learn to draw upon the support that is always around and within us. Medicine is anything that will help us, make us better, heal us, or bring balance back into our lives. There is medicine and great beauty in all aspects of our environment. We can use anything or any situation as an ally, or as support on the path toward growth and well being.

We are thrilled to announce Kendra McKinley as our musical guest for this event!

Kendra McKinley perceives a song like a painter views a blank canvas: an opportunity to expand an audience’s mind, to wash their thoughts in brilliant hues of blue and violet, scarlet reds and effusive orange. Inspired by the past but not chained to it, McKinley’s music spans the diverse spectrum of pop music. She echoes the intricate vocal arrangements crafted by Brian Wilson, fractures the narrow definitions of a genre like St. Vincent, and recognizes storytelling as the key aspect of a great tune the way the best singer-songwriters have for generations.

After the SHOWGA experience, enjoy fresh Anchor brews on tap and delicious grub from the food truck! Anchor Public Taps is Anchor Brewing's new pilot brewery and bar located across the street from Anchor's iconic Potrero Hill brewery and taproom.

Ancho Public Taps is a friendly gathering place for trying both new, experimental brews, and the classic Anchor beers you know and love. It has some of the best local food trucks scheduled daily, as well as calendar of special events to celebrate those good times and good beer!

Join us for a live concert on your yoga mat on Wednesday, January 3rd. We will be exploring the theme of "Working with the Power of the Void." Everything in our world is created out of the void and every moment is an opportunity to start fresh and recreate our reality. This Showga Theme is about embracing mystery and discovering great peace and excitement in the unknown.

We are pleased to announce Hannah Moriah and Owen Adair Kelley as our musical guests for this Oakland event!

Hannah Moriah is a Napa-born vocalist, songwriter, and collaborator currently residing in Oakland. She has been described as "the voice in your dreams" by the SF Examiner and has lent vocals to acts such as The Lumerians and Sleepy Sun. Trained as a cellist in her youth, she began composing early in life. Her two self-released albums can be heard at hannahmoriah.com and she can be found performing as one half of folk duet, Whitethorn Singers.

Owen Adair Kelley hails from Columbus, Ohio, where he studied classical and jazz guitar. After moving to the bay area in 2010, he quickly established himself as an adept guitarist and performer. He is a member of Cash Pony, Fine Points and Sleepy Sun. His first album, Even Still, was released in August of 2016.

Celebrate the wonder of the human experience through art, music, and yoga. Join us for Showga, a festive and empowering exploration of the senses. This is a yoga experience unlike any other inside the Oakland Museum of California's popular exhibition Nature’s Gift: Humans, Friends & the Unknown.

Join us on Wednesday, November 29th at the beautiful historic ballroom of Starline Social Club! This SHOWGA will be focused on Grounding and Visualizing Success. We must establish a strong, secure foundation in our bodies, in our true natures, and in our environments in order to have the strength to dream bigger, take risks, and continue to move up to the next levels of what we consider success to be in our lives.

We are pleased to announce Chuck Johnson as our musical guest for this event! Chuck Johnson is a composer and musician residing in Oakland, CA. He approaches his work with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty, with a focus on guitar, experimental electronics, minimalism and soundtrack composition. Balsams - Chuck's latest album and pedal steel guitar debut - delivers a group of pieces for ambient meditation. Pitchfork has described the first single "Riga Black" as "building a mournful hymn out of layers of sliding strings, cascading with a zenlike stateliness..."

Join us at the beautiful historic ballroom of Starline Social Club on Wednesday, October 25th for Showga featuring special musical guest Mark Clifford!

The theme for this event is Building Personal Power. The event is designed to help participants reconnect with and reclaim their truth and the power that lies within. Each one of us has unique traits, or “personal medicine” that we bring into the world. This class will help participants identify their unique qualities and explore ways to work with these qualities to build confidence and personal power.

Mark Clifford is a vibraphonist, composer,and percussionist based in Oakland, CA. A much sought after performer and improviser, Clifford is equally involved in free improvisation, new music, jazz, and rock; he is involved in multiple projects in the Bay Area and around the Country. His performance experience spans worldwide; he has had the honor of playing alongside an array of esteemed contemporaries, including: Jeff Parker, Kjell Nordeson, Ches Smith, Joan La Barbara, Aram Shelton, Colin Stranahan, Lisa Mezzacappa, Scott Amendola, Tatsuya Nakatani, Ron Miles, So Percussion, SF Sound, Oakland Active Orchestra, and has served as a percussionist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

As a composer, Clifford keeps busy writing music for a wide range of projects, ensembles, and commissions. He is the leader of The Dirty Snacks Ensemble, an eclectic post jazz ensemble in which he serves as the composer, vibraphonist and vocalist.

Clifford graduated with a B.M. in Classical Percussion Performance from the Lamont School of Music where he received many accolades, including the 2012 undergraduate recital of distinction, the 2012 Frank Toth Memorial Award, and the 2011 Outstanding Student in Jazz and Commercial Studies Award. Clifford studied Percussion under Colorado Symphony Orchestra master percussionist John Kinzie, Jazz Theory and Composition under pianist Eric Gunnison, and Composition under William Hill. Clifford has also had the honor of studying percussion and marimba at Nagoya University in Japan with Tomomi Sugo and has studied vibraphone with two of his greatest heroes, Steve Nelson and Matt Moran.

For this show, Mark will be performing original material and improvising using a vibraphone, tape loops, and Juno 106.

We are honored to be partnering with Noise Pop for a monthly Sunday Showga series at the beautiful Swedish American Hall. This month's musical guest is Madeline Kenney. Madeline Kenney is an Oakland based Seattle transplant who makes twang-hazy dream rock with nods to indie roots. It's like if Loretta Lynn had a secret shoegaze project.

Golden Graham (aka Graham LeBron) is an American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and film composer from Oakland, CA.

Putting his music degree from Rice University to work, since 2010, he has composed music for film, commercials and online spots, among his clients are Square, Levi's, Asana, NearFuture and Ikea. He is represented by Portland music agency, Marmoset.

A multi-instrumentalist formerly of Rogue Wave, Port O'Brien and The Album Leaf, he is also an accomplished DJ and recording engineer. In 2013, he scored the independent feature length film, I'm obsessed with you (but you've got to leave me alone). The film debuted at the Sonoma Independent Film Festival in April 2014.

He is currently at work on several recording projects for his record label, Outer Sound, including the third Golden Gram album. He plays drums with Outer Embassy (members of Daring Ear, Extra Classic) and is a touring member of Easysound Recording Artist and Fruit Bats.

Saalt is the musical creation of Alisa Saario and bandmates Tyler English (Everyone Is Dirty, False Priest) Brent Curriden and Nick Moore, who are both in Cave Clove with Saario. Now based out of Oakland, Saario's Pacific Northwest upbringing seeps into her gloom drenched vocals with catchy swells and heavy hitting. With bass-driving melodies, the music is low-end heavy while simultaneously swept away by the full and ambient vibrations of pedal steel. With intricately detailed drum beats and twinkling guitar licks, Saalt is a transportive experience into a slow burn of cathartic musical dreaminess.

Brian Tester has been involved in music and art-focused work and collaboration since the late 1990s, first in Minneapolis, MN, and since 2003 in Oakland, CA. He brings a focus on sonic detail, left field allusion, technologic fluidity, and an intuitive grasp of improvisation to each musical project in which he has participated. Besides solo appearances, he has performed in a wide assortment of groups and projects, including Spaceburn, Soft Shells, Hits, Ruby Pins, Triangle, Axolotl, Jealousy, WOE, and others. He has engineered, mixed, or mastered a surprising variety of Bay Area and Midwest music.

Cellista is an acclaimed American cellist and artistic director. She is known for collaborating with artists across various media, as well as producing and playing live performances in unconventional spaces that incorporate elements of classical music, theater, improvisation and visual art across a range of genres including pop, hip-hop, classical and more. These performances often feature a carbon fiber cello and loop station.

Golden Graham (aka Graham LeBron) is an American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and film composer from Oakland, CA.

Putting his music degree from Rice University to work, since 2010, he has composed music for film, commercials and online spots, among his clients are Square, Levi's, Asana, NearFuture and Ikea. He is represented by Portland music agency, Marmoset.

A multi-instrumentalist formerly of Rogue Wave, Port O'Brien and The Album Leaf, he is also an accomplished DJ and recording engineer. In 2013, he scored the independent feature length film, I'm obsessed with you (but you've got to leave me alone). The film debuted at the Sonoma Independent Film Festival in April 2014.

He is currently at work on several recording projects for his record label, Outer Sound, including the third Golden Gram album. He plays drums with Outer Embassy (members of Daring Ear, Extra Classic) and is a touring member of Easysound Recording Artist and Fruit Bats.

"Protoghost: enter an alternative thermal landscape with multimedia artist Jon Hrabko, without the accepted distances between objects, between horizons. The colors are different here. The vibrations. A charged atmosphere awaits, where sparks flash midair in a call and response of incandescence. The black clouds hum and strike with voltage. The solar wind purrs through matter. Dust feels the radiation drag. The transistance calls for you to join.

Each showga performance will include different surprise collaborators."

We are pleased to announce Nathan Blaz as our musical guest for this week! Nathan Blaz is a cellist and composer based in Oakland, CA. He studied cello and music synthesis at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 2006, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he became a founding member of the indie rock band Geographer. He recorded and toured with the band for eight years. In 2013, he formed systemritual, an experimental dance/minimal synth duo with video artist Elia Vargas. The project constructs improvisational performances using analog modular synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines, with live visualizations and processing. Nathan's improvised solo performances explore the relationship between psychoacoustics, rhythm and tonality.

DOE EYE is the ambient/electronic project of recording engineer & producer Maryam Qudus. Her newest release, 'b-room' consists of six ambient pieces, available on cassette and digital download at doeeye.bandcamp.com

Brian Tester has been involved in music and art-focused work and collaboration since the late 1990s, first in Minneapolis, MN, and since 2003 in Oakland, CA. He brings a focus on sonic detail, left field allusion, technologic fluidity, and an intuitive grasp of improvisation to each musical project in which he has participated. Besides solo appearances, he has performed in a wide assortment of groups and projects, including Spaceburn, Soft Shells, Hits, Ruby Pins, Triangle, Axolotl, Jealousy, WOE, and others. He has engineered, mixed, or mastered a surprising variety of Bay Area and Midwest music.

Cellista is an acclaimed American cellist and artistic director. She is known for collaborating with artists across various media, as well as producing and playing live performances in unconventional spaces that incorporate elements of classical music, theater, improvisation and visual art across a range of genres including pop, hip-hop, classical and more. These performances often feature a carbon fiber cello and loop station.

Golden Graham (aka Graham LeBron) is an American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and film composer from Oakland, CA.

Putting his music degree from Rice University to work, since 2010, he has composed music for film, commercials and online spots, among his clients are Square, Levi's, Asana, NearFuture and Ikea. He is represented by Portland music agency, Marmoset.

A multi-instrumentalist formerly of Rogue Wave, Port O'Brien and The Album Leaf, he is also an accomplished DJ and recording engineer. In 2013, he scored the independent feature length film, I'm obsessed with you (but you've got to leave me alone). The film debuted at the Sonoma Independent Film Festival in April 2014.

He is currently at work on several recording projects for his record label, Outer Sound, including the third Golden Gram album. He plays drums with Outer Embassy (members of Daring Ear, Extra Classic) and is a touring member of Easysound Recording Artist and Fruit Bats.

"Protoghost: enter an alternative thermal landscape with multimedia artist Jon Hrabko, without the accepted distances between objects, between horizons. The colors are different here. The vibrations. A charged atmosphere awaits, where sparks flash midair in a call and response of incandescence. The black clouds hum and strike with voltage. The solar wind purrs through matter. Dust feels the radiation drag. The transistance calls for you to join.

Each showga performance will include different surprise collaborators."

La Mer is a healer, songstress and storyteller from Los Angeles. Her work centers around powerful rituals of union with soulful nature. Mer's main project, In Waves, is a creatively inspired sound healing experience combining original music, live field recordings, crystal singing bowls, gongs, chimes, drum, and medicine melody.

Join us in an extended Savasana with La Mer immediately following 4/26 Showga!

Brian Tester has been involved in music and art-focused work and collaboration since the late 1990s, first in Minneapolis, MN, and since 2003 in Oakland, CA. He brings a focus on sonic detail, left field allusion, technologic fluidity, and an intuitive grasp of improvisation to each musical project in which he has participated. Besides solo appearances, he has performed in a wide assortment of groups and projects, including Spaceburn, Soft Shells, Hits, Ruby Pins, Triangle, Axolotl, Jealousy, WOE, and others. He has engineered, mixed, or mastered a surprising variety of Bay Area and Midwest music.

Cellista is an acclaimed American cellist and artistic director. She is known for collaborating with artists across various media, as well as producing and playing live performances in unconventional spaces that incorporate elements of classical music, theater, improvisation and visual art across a range of genres including pop, hip-hop, classical and more. These performances often feature a carbon fiber cello and loop station.

Golden Graham (aka Graham LeBron) is an American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and film composer from Oakland, CA.

Putting his music degree from Rice University to work, since 2010, he has composed music for film, commercials and online spots, among his clients are Square, Levi's, Asana, NearFuture and Ikea. He is represented by Portland music agency, Marmoset.

A multi-instrumentalist formerly of Rogue Wave, Port O'Brien and The Album Leaf, he is also an accomplished DJ and recording engineer. In 2013, he scored the independent feature length film, I'm obsessed with you (but you've got to leave me alone). The film debuted at the Sonoma Independent Film Festival in April 2014.

He is currently at work on several recording projects for his record label, Outer Sound, including the third Golden Gram album. He plays drums with Outer Embassy (members of Daring Ear, Extra Classic) and is a touring member of Easysound Recording Artist and Fruit Bats.